# FOX 8 News — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of FOX 8 News by Local TV LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 3,482 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-8-news/id324686068/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-8-news/id324686068.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,718 · 4★ 429 · 3★ 78 · 2★ 54 · 1★ 203 ## What do users think of FOX 8 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💕 Love the family atmosphere - 🌟 Best news station in Cleveland **Cons** - 🐛 Constant crashing and freezing - 🤖 Too many irrelevant notifications - 🤯 Frustrating 'continue reading' button - 🤬 Excessive and intrusive ads - 🤔 Confusing and messy layout changes **Commonly reported bugs** - Articles disappearing or not loading properly - Tapping 'continue reading' opens wrong story - Frequent app crashes and freezes - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Bring back the old, user-friendly app design - Improve article navigation and readability - Add dark mode option - Allow customizable notification settings ## Newest reviews (19 of 105) ### 1/5 — Fix *2025-04-08, version 500.8.0* This app needs to be fixed or overhauled. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-04-01, version 500.8.0* To many ads at the top and bottom of the screen. The page jumps up and down when you’re trying to scroll and automatically opens up a story when you didn’t even click on it. This was a good app but not anymore. ### 1/5 — Aggravated *2025-03-19, version 500.8.0* Unable to read anything anymore. When I click on a news report it goes back to Home Screen. ### 1/5 — Worse with each and every update *2025-02-24, version 500.8.0* A weak product which the somehow manage to make worse with each and every update. It was bad enough when an article you were reading would spastically jump up and down with each and every ad transition. Now it just ceases to function as ads load up and take over half of the screen. Even after you put up with the ad it frequently does not return control to the user. ### 2/5 — Where is the search bar *2025-02-05, version 500.7.0* The alert links never open to the correct piece of news then there is no search bar for me to look up that specific piece of news. I have to go to the Internet and search for it. Make the links open to the news or Provide a search feature … I have removed and re-downloaded the app still does not work. ### 1/5 — Watch live doesn’t work *2024-06-10, version 500.4.0* I wanted this app to watch the news live broadcast. But that is not possible because the app won’t connect to the server. Worse you cannot cast it to my Roku stick. Very disappointed. I’ll get I have to watch another network. ### 1/5 — Video format👎 *2024-03-26, version 500.1.4* The new video format fills up the screen not allowing me to read anything, with the exception of maybe 2 sentences I liked it better when I had the option to read the story instead of watching the video…app deleted! ### 2/5 — New ad format super annoying. *2024-03-21, version 500.1.4* Hate the new ad format. Am deleting the app. ### 1/5 — New update *2024-03-01, version 500.1.4* After your new update, everything is in huge print. Cannot find a way to get the text back to normal size ### 1/5 — Can’t load “\(‘-‘)/“ *2024-02-26, version 500.1.1* Can’t download it. Very awkward. To bad because I liked watching you news. ### 2/5 — App continues to get worse *2023-09-12, version 41.20.0* The “watch live” option is gone. News stories don’t match the headline. ### 3/5 — Bait and switch stories and too many ads *2023-08-24* They send push notifications that aren’t linked to the actual story. If you want to watch the video attached you have to watch an ad each time, some ads are longer than the video you watch. Grew tired of the app overall so it’s time to try a different news stations app for awhile. ### 2/5 — Slow *2023-04-07, version 41.19.0* Hi, before you say it, yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Fox 8 app on both my iPhone 11 and my new iPad. It takes about 1 minute and 15 seconds average, for the app to open. Despite being in great wi-if and in LTE coverage, it’s still very slow to open. Please fix this ASAP! ### 2/5 — Why no more articles? Too many videos! *2023-03-31, version 41.19.0* Not sure if this is related to any app updates, but lately it seems all of the news is in video format. I prefer to have the option of reading an article and there seems to be less and less of those. Half the time I cannot even get the volume to work on news videos. Very frustrating. ### 2/5 — Why no more articles? *2023-02-04, version 41.16.0* Not sure if this is related to any app updates, but lately it seems all of the news is in video format. I prefer to have the option of reading an article and there seems to be less and less of those. Half the time I cannot even get the volume to work on news videos. Very frustrating. ### 3/5 — Live *2023-01-30, version 41.16.0* What happened to the live option? ### 1/5 — Live *2023-01-16, version 41.16.0* I haven’t been able to watch the livestream on this app in a month. Why isn’t it working? ### 1/5 — Crashes all the time *2023-01-01, version 41.16.0* The app most of the time won’t let you read the he articles listed. The new app now is blurry upon scroll complete garbage ### 1/5 — Incomplete *2022-12-20, version 41.15.0* Articles routinely miss information. Whoever is responsible for publishing articles seems to publish without proofing. Leaving many articles without any information or missing information. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No good *2026-05-22, version 508.0.0* The push notifications rarely take you to the story they are headlining. Usually goes to the live page, so frustrating. Then you can’t even find the story they pushed out. All the Cleveland news apps are horrible. ### 1/5 — Skip loading this app *2026-04-20, version 505.0.0* If you are looking to read local news then look somewhere else. It is not possible to read a full short article. Constant reloading (for ad content) makes the article jump back and forth to random spots in the article so the majority of the time is spent trying to scroll it back to where you were in the article. To make matters worse it will always crash several times during these reloads. ### 1/5 — Weather *2026-03-27, version 505.0.0* Interrupted the iheart music awards and I am not happy!!! You keep going over the same stuff!!! ### 1/5 — Dumb *2026-02-11, version 504.0.0* Requires an account now to watch live. Deleted. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-12-10, version 502.0.2* The app constantly crashes now and freezes my phone. It never used to do this so I’m thinking there’s a bug with it. ### 1/5 — What happened to this app? *2025-11-29, version 502.0.2* Constantly crashes or is just a black screen. Been getting this for the last 6 weeks. No longer usable. ### 1/5 — Watch live…don’t think so☹️ *2025-10-29, version 502.0.0* 502.0.0 crash..crash..crash!!! ### 1/5 — Worst app I’ve ever seen *2025-09-07, version 500.9.0* I click on a notification, sit thru 2 or 3 ads, and then it doesn’t even take you to the story you were notified about. Deleted the app and will never install again. It’s just a money grab for advertisements. ### 1/5 — What’s up *2025-08-06, version 500.9.0* This app hasn’t worked for months, each update makes it worse. Can’t use it at all. Waste of time!!! After months still crashes. Please fix ### 1/5 — Terrible App *2025-06-25, version 500.8.0* This app is awful on an iPhone. It freezes constantly… assuming you can even get it to open the first time. I’ve deleted and reinstalled several times with the same results. (iPhone 15 with iOS 18.5) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fox Eight app *2024-02-20, version 500.1.1* I am having problems with the Fox Eight app. It’s not letting me do anything it’s just a frozen screen to continue. How do I fix that? I updated my phone. ### 5/5 — Absolutely nothing but commercials *2022-02-07, version 41.8.0* Channel 8 switched to a new format and nothing but commercials. Rating of 0 out of 10. ### 5/5 — My name is Kathy Barnes from Akron *2020-07-12* I’ve always loved channel 8 news we always swore by Dick Goddard in telling the weather he was never wrong he sadly missed telling us the weather although I don’t know the weather people it works there now are good too and all the news cast anime thank you so much God bless you all and keep safe ### 5/5 — Fox Eight news *2019-08-02, version 6.5.0* I love this app it lets me know things as soon as they know Such as amber alerts and weather changes and local shootings and what is happening in our area. I also watch Fox eight every morning I feel like the broadcasters are family. ### 5/5 — Best news station Cleveland fox 8 *2018-01-10, version 5.13* We love this news station it offers everything. They go above and beyond to give us are information. I love the family atmosphere on the show . They really care about people . We love fox 8 . ### 4/5 — Need TV streaming app *2022-07-17, version 41.11.0* You need to make an app for FireTV and Roku so I can watch local content. You station is the only one in Cleveland that I can’t get with an over the air HD antenna. Please!! ### 4/5 — Why would you take away accessibility *2021-07-01, version 41.2.1* If there’s one thing I really liked about this app it was that I could highlight a paragraph or two of the article and I could choose from multiple options such as “copy”, “look up” and “speak” using my iPhone. This allowed me to have the article read to me in a monotone voice while I worked on other things. The recent update however, took this accessibility option out. Why? It was one of the best functions of the entire app. I would appreciate if it was re-added in the next update And would certainly allow me to give us up at five. ### 4/5 — Update took away widget. *2020-11-18, version 6.10.3* Updated my app today and once again, the widget with headlines isn’t loading. Another point of criticism is when you open a headline it gives you the “Continue Reading?” Button. Of course I want to load the story and read it. That’s why I opened the link. ### 4/5 — New Ads Crash Phone & LOUD *2020-05-15* I don’t know what kind of new update or advertising content has been used but I get MORE loud, sudden, unable to close ads on this app than any other one on my phone. Be it the “Congrats Google User” bogus, the “your phone has a virus” pop op, or a sudden video playing somewhere in the background that makes my phone freeze until I close the app completely. Thousands of ways to get local news other than dealing with crappy apps. Your website is now more user friendly and convenient. ### 4/5 — Please fix the notifications. *2018-12-03, version 6.1.4* Overall a good app however I had to turn my notifications off. I don’t need to know that somebody is being arrested in a city 50 miles away. Seriously, out of an average of 7 push notifications daily, 1 of them pertained to me. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*